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Differences between Perfect Powers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Abstract
We apply the hypergeometric method of Thue and Siegel to prove that if $a$ and
$b$ are positive integers, then the inequality
$0\,<\,\left| {{a}^{x}}\,-\,{{b}^{y}} \right|\,<\,\frac{1}{4}\,\max \{{{a}^{x/2}},\,{{b}^{y/2}}\}$
has at most a single solution in positive integers
$x$ and
$y$. This essentially sharpens a classic result of LeVeque.
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